Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A young Black city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle.
Wiktionary
- n. US, slang short for "black urban professional", a African American subset of the yuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties.
Etymologies
- A variation of the word yuppie. (Wiktionary)
- b(lack) + (y)uppie. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Harmond and Mame are a classic Clintonian "buppie" Black urban professional couple.”
“This is truly a world away from Nottage's last play to have a British production - the wickedly bold 'buppie' satire Fabulation, which, she delightedly confesses, so discomfited white audiences in the US that at first they had to plant black people in the audience to show them it was OK to laugh.”
“By contrast, I could never endorse a candidate who held such views were he running in the 35th Councilmanic (which includes the buppie communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights)”
The Huffington Post: The Adventues of Rocky and Gatewinkel (or When Gatemouth Met Hackshaw)
“By contrast, I could never endorse a candidate who held such views were he running in the 35th Councilmanic which includes the buppie communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights”
The Huffington Post: The Adventues of Rocky and Gatewinkel (or When Gatemouth Met Hackshaw)
“Neo-soulish, post-modern buppie Blackness getting old: "urban.”
“Our majority-buppie neighborhood is really hurting from the mortgage crisis.”
“They are bright, accomplished, decent, they know all about the yuppie experience, the buppie experience, Ivy League ways, networking.”
Peggy Noonan Condescends to Barack Obama on "Authenticity" « Lean Left
“Now you have what we would consider sort of a buppie (ph) president, right?”
“Now you have what we would consider, sort of a buppie president.”
“Hell, the black colleges are really buppie factories, teaching a new generation of the elite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buppie’.
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Vuppies
Various urban professionals, and other such pies. (related to wealth, labor, class, etc.)
yuppie, duppie, luppie, yettie, skippie, huppie, scuppie, yupster, buppie, guppie, yippie, zippie and 65 more...
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Interesting ones
As a second language, thank you.
ergophobia, quoz, pope, wobble, logos, vertebrate, masterpiece, mu, billabong, mojo, merkin, milieu and 76 more...
Tweets
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muamor The word buppie (also buppy); meaning a black urban (or upwardly-mobile) professional; a yuppie who's black, was invented by the US media in 1984 as one of several variations on the theme of yuppie. Unlike some of the others--such as guppie, juppie (a Japanese yuppie), and puppie (a pregnant yuppie)-- this one caught on: perhaps because it identified a distinct group which was obviously rejecting its 'roots' culture in favour of the values and aspirations of a yuppie peer group. Oxford Dictionary of new words. Mar 1, 2008